Re: Popularity contest

[Dirk Laurie <dpl@...>]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 12:07:25PM +0200, steve donovan wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Dirk Laurie <dpl@sun.ac.za> wrote:
> > but is the proposed 'import sin,cos from math' really so much more
> > convenient than 'import(math,{"sin","cos"})' as to justify two new
> > keywords?  (As I have confessed before, I'm a Python _apostate_).
> 
> Ah, but note the difference
> 
> import sin, cos from math  => local sin, cos = math.sin, math.cos
> 
> the idea is to get away from globals.  Now this kind of thing can be
> done with macros or whatnot, but can't be done with table magic.

OK, I'll rephrase my objection.

    Is the proposed 'import sin,cos from math' really so much more
    convenient than 'local sin,cos = math.sin,math.cos' as to justify 
    two new keywords?

Personally I don't think it is clean and clever to make war veterans 
like `sin` and `cos` local, but let's not cloud the syntax issue. 

Dirk